Wilga Rivers

Wilga Rivers (13 April 1919 – 23 June 2007) was an Australian academic and writer. She was a professor emerita of romance languages and literature at Harvard University. She had previously taught at University of Illinois and Monash University. Earlier she taught at Essendon High School in Victoria, Australia. She studied and wrote about teaching languages. Rivers was an early supporter of the change from the audiolingual method to more communicative and interactive language teaching. Rivers was born in Melbourne and died in Watertown, Massachusetts.[1]

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  1. Di Fabio, Elvira; Stone, Donald; Frommer, Judith (20 November 2008). "Wilga Marie Rivers, Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Memorial Minute". Harvard University Gazette. The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

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